STRAY ANIMALS

AHS accepts all sick and injured stray animals. You may bring them to our Sunnyslope Campus or call our EAMT™ Dispatch Center at 602.997.7585 Ext. 2073 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. We can not accept stray turn-ins at our Nina Mason Pulliam Campus for Compassion. We are unable to take in healthy stray dogs over three months of age. You can attempt to reunite a healthy, lost dog with its owner by using one of these online resources:

Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) Programs

Maricopa County is second in the nation in pet overpopulation with an estimated 250,000 free-roaming outdoor cats. Last year, close to 40,000 homeless cats entered Valley shelters and only 40 percent found homes. Through Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) and other innovative community partnerships and programs, we are committed to giving free-roaming outdoor cats a better quality of life by moving away from euthanasia as the only solution to our current cat overpopulation issue.

AHS has teamed with a number of different animal organizations to promote Trap-Neuter-Return programs. TNR programs humanely trap outdoor free-roaming cats, spay or neuter them and then return them to their colony locations.

TNR programs are the most humane and effective way to stabilize outdoor cat populations. They help reduce cat overpopulation through natural attrition as opposed to euthanasia and allow for undomesticated felines to live out their lives in their colonies. TNR also reduces displeasing behaviors associated with mating, such as yowling and spraying.

AHS has partnered with the Animal Defense League of Arizona and other community partners to develop a expanded TNR pilot program to help reduce outdoor cat populations in the Valley. For more information on this program as well as additional free-roaming cat resources, visit somanycats.org.